Improvement in pot-tilters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. COMEY, OF NORFOLK, MASSACHUSETTS.

W IMPROVEMENT IN POT-TILTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,711, dated October 6, 1874; application filed June 1, 1874.

of which the following is a description suffi ciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in Which Figure 1 is a view of my improved utensil arranged as a griddle-lift, and Fig. 2 a view of the same in use as a kettle-clamp.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the draw- 1n g.

My invention relates to that class of kitchen utensils which are adapted to a variety of purposes; and consists in combining with a pot-tilter a toothed wheel, as hereinafter described.

In Fig. 1, A is the body, and B the handle, of the utensil. The body A is bifurcated, or provided with the legs F D, and also with the curved prong E. The handle B is pivoted near one end to the outer end of the leg F, the short end of the handle projecting inwardly, and being provided with the small spur-wheel O.

I employ a device constructed as described. To use the implement for this purpose, the leg D is inserted in the kettle, and the handle B raised, bringing the Wheel 0 against the outer side of the vessel, and clamping or grasping it, as shown in Fig. 2, the dotted lines in said figure representing a section of the kettle.

The projection or prong E is designed for lifting griddles, and similar uses, the implement, When employed for this purpose, assuming the position shown in Fig. 1.

The object of the Wheel 0 is to enable the implement to be disengaged from the kettle with greater facility.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim-- The body A, provided with the legs F D, and the handle B, provided with the Wheel 0, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM M. OOMEY.

Witnesses:

H. E. METCALF, O. A. SHAW. 

